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VA1u'ETY, n., diversity. F. variete, om varius, L., di erent. SrE '1MEN, n., a sample; a part of anything exhibited that the rest
may be known. L. specimen, om ecio, I see.
INTERMING'LED, pt., mixed between. A.S. m ngan, to mingle; G.
mi.,go, I mix.
TRAN'SIENT, a., short, momentary. F. transitoire, om tran.itus, L.,
a passing.
ALLIGA'ToR, n., a large species of lizard; the crocodile of America. S. la,qarto, L. lacerta, om lacertus, strength, rce, a lizard, a sh. TRor'rnAL, a., placed near the tropic whence the sun appears to turn.
L. tropicus, om trepo, G., I turn.
ExHALA'TroN, n., vapour. F. exhalation, om halo, L., I breathe. PEs'TILENCE, n., a virulent; devastating infection. F. pestilence, om
pestis, L., a plague.
(For Pre xes and A xes see lists, p. 401 ) 1. THERE is little
variety on the banks of the Sa­vannah. To Augusta, with very w exceptions, they are low, and thickly wooded with oak, gum, cypress, pine, and the cotton-tree. You must not mistake this r the cotton-plant. The plant seldom grows over two or three et ; the tree will, upon the river side, shoot up ve, and sometimes ten et in a year, until it makes sixty et, often one hundred and twenty. It throws o a sort of useless down, that has the appearance of cotton: the atmosphere is lled with it in some places, having the appearance of light snow, thinly lling. Besides these, willo s of both kinds may be seen ; and, when the boat stops at a landing, you will nd a gre.a t botanical variety in the undergrowth. I have sometimes, within an area of a w acres, collected twenty beautiful speci­ mens in twenty minutes, one of which is a very pretty cherokee rose.
2. The per me of the blooming magnolia is, at a distance, re ned and delicate, but is too strong r use at a near approach: in many instances it is high and towering. The dogwood is covered with a beau­ ti l white ower, like a thin rose ; it is not often over twenty feet in height,-seldom so high. Inter-